--- title: Mobile Application to Improve Nutritional Counseling Provided by Primary Care Physicians for Hypertension. nct_id: NCT02249494 overall_status: COMPLETED phase: NA sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre study_type: INTERVENTIONAL primary_condition: Hypertension countries: Brazil canonical_url: "https://parkinsonspathways.com/agent/trials/NCT02249494.md" clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02249494" ct_last_update_post_date: 2015-03-19 last_seen_at: "2026-05-12T06:22:06.614Z" source: ClinicalTrials.gov (mirrored, no enrichment) --- # Mobile Application to Improve Nutritional Counseling Provided by Primary Care Physicians for Hypertension. **Official Title:** Nutritional Recommendations for Hypertension: Development of Mobile Application for Improve Knowledge in Lifestyle Modification for Primary Care Physicians **NCT ID:** [NCT02249494](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02249494) ## Key Facts - **Status:** COMPLETED - **Phase:** NA - **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL - **Target Enrollment:** 110 - **Lead Sponsor:** Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre - **Collaborators:** Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - **Conditions:** Hypertension - **Start Date:** 2014-10 - **Completion Date:** 2015-01 - **CT.gov Last Update:** 2015-03-19 ## Brief Summary The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the use of a mobile app could improve knowledge and practice in nutrition counseling performed by primary care physicians in Brazil. ## Detailed Description To optimize the nutritional care in the context of the limitations of available time and knowledge in medical practice, the present study proposes to develop a tool of nutritional guidelines for hypertension, easily accessible, based on evidence, and then evaluate its use among primary care physicians registered in a center telehealth. The use of the mobile application tool will aim to improve the nutritional counseling, helping with prevention of other chronic diseases in primary care context. ## Eligibility - **Sex:** ALL - **Healthy Volunteers:** No ``` Inclusion Criteria: * primary care physicians registered in TelessaúdeRS (Center for Telehealth) * primary care physicians who use smartphone or tablet Exclusion Criteria: * not to work in primary care ``` ## Arms - **Smartphone (mobile app) & telehealth** (EXPERIMENTAL) — Participants will install and use a mobile application designed to provide nutritional recommendations for hypertensive patients. These recommendations will be based on the DASH diet guidelines appropriate to patient profile: consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, milk or low fat dairy products, lean meats, poultry and fish, nuts, seeds and legumes, amount of fats, oils and sweets, as well as guidelines for salt intake and alcohol. The call service will be offered by the Center for Telehealth Rio Grande do Sul to answer clinic questions with qualified staff and in real time. All physicians who work in Primary Health Care in Brazil can use this call center when they have questions about diagnosis and management of their patients. - **nutritional counseling & telehealth** (PLACEBO_COMPARATOR) — Physicians who are enrolled for this group will continue performing routine nutritional counseling in their clinical practice. The call service will be offered by the Center for Telehealth Rio Grande do Sul to answer clinic questions with qualified staff and in real time. All physicians who work in Primary Health Care in Brazil can use this call service when they have questions about diagnosis and management of their patients. ## Interventions - **telehealth** (OTHER) — Use the call service offered by the Center for Telehealth Rio Grande do Sul to answer clinic questions with qualified staff and in real time. All physicians who work in Primary Health Care in Brazil can call when they have questions about diagnosis and management of their patients. - **nutritional counseling** (OTHER) — Performing routine nutritional counseling in their clinical practice - **smartphone (mobile app)** (DEVICE) — Mobile app, designed to provide nutritional recommendations for hypertensive patients, will be use. The recommendations will be based on the DASH diet guidelines appropriate to the patient profile: consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, milk or low fat dairy products, lean meats, poultry and fish, nuts, seeds and legumes, amount of fats, oils and sweets, as well as guidelines for salt intake and alcohol. ## Primary Outcomes - **Change in score of knowledge and ability related to nutritional care.** _(time frame: 30 days)_ — For each correct answer, participant will get one point on the knowledge test and for each incorrect answer will get 0. Thus, possible scores will range from 69 to 0. Data based on questions about the abilities will be summarized in a qualitative ranking. ## Locations (1) - Núcleo de Telessaúde Técnico-Científico do Rio Grande do Sul. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ## Recent Field Changes (last 30 days) - `status.lastUpdatePostDate` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `design.phases` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `design.enrollmentCount` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `status.overallStatus` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `status.primaryCompletionDate` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `status.completionDate` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `eligibility.criteria` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `eligibility.sex` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `outcomes.primary` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `armsInterventions.arms` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `armsInterventions.interventions` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `sponsor.lead` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `sponsor.collaborators` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `results.hasResults` — added _(2026-05-12)_ - `locations.núcleo de telessaúde técnico-científico do rio grande do sul. universidade federal do rio grande do sul|porto alegre|rio grande do sul|brazil` — added _(2026-05-12)_ --- *Canonical: https://parkinsonspathways.com/agent/trials/NCT02249494.md* *Source data (authoritative): https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02249494* *This page is a raw mirror with no AI summary, no editorial enrichment, and no Parkinson's-specific filtering.*